Noel Gallagher Talks Through New Oasis Album

[LoZoccolo]

Oasis helmsman Noel Gallagher has given a track by track description of his band’s new album ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’ and has revealed that Martin Duffy from Primal Scream guests on the highly anticipated new release.

In a new interview featured in next month's issue of Q Magazine, Gallagher talks through the band’s new 12-track album ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’, describing some of the inspirations behind the songs and what fans can expect.

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[LoZoccolo]

1. Kick.

:kick:

[FrankBooth]

2. Highly Anticipated?

Look, I enjoy a few of their songs, but I'm hard pressed to believe this upcoming album is highly anticipated by many, yourself excluded.

Their time in the sun has long since come and passed.

[liberalpragmatist]

3. In the UK, yes

It's a UK-based site. They're still quite popular there, though sort of seen as has-beens.

Here, nobody cares. Oasis was fantastic for 3 years in the mid-90s and spit out two great albums and a string of fantastic singles and b-sides. Nothing that comes after that is going to come close and their newer stuff is very average.

And I say this as a big fan. I'm looking forward more to the new Coldplay album and the new Franz Ferdinand album at the end of the summer.

[FrankBooth]

4. Good point

I do own a couple of Oasis albums and I like them, although they don't come close to the Beatles, Kinks or Who in my opinion, but I do enjoy their melodies.

[liberalpragmatist]

5. They're less appreciated here than in England

Here they're generally cited as derivative. To an extent that's true, but that's less said in England (in general). The reason is that they're seen as having a huge (mostly positive) cultural impact. They injected swagger and classicism back into rock, which was largely moribund in England at the time. The Madchester and Shoegazing scenes had just ended and Suede/Blur/Pulp-style Britpop was just starting to rise but hadn't taken hold of the mass consciousness.

It's fun to knock them, especially because the Gallaghers (Liam, especially) are such assholes and incredibly arrogant. After What's the Story they largely became a self-parody, recycling old hits and losing a lot of their melodic sense. What's easy to forget is that DM and (WTS)MG were really good rock albums. Yeah, Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall may have been dulled by overexposure, but they really are great songs. And their b-sides are fantastic - check out their b-sides compilation The Masterplan. They put many of their best songs on their b-sides.

In England I think Oasis will come to be seen as a VERY historically important band. Certainly not The Beatles or Led Zep or The Stones or The Who. But maybe similar to T. Rex (another largely overlooked British band in the US).

Like I said, I'm not so into their new stuff. I enjoyed Blur's latest release, Think Tank, more than Oasis' last album which was incredibly dull. I'll definitely pick up the new album, but like I said, I'm more interested in the new Coldplay album and the new Franz Ferdinand album.

[jonnyblitz]

6. I was a huge T.Rex fan.

when I saw "the smiths" in the 80's they played T.Rex " the slider" album as the canned music in between bands and it just loved it.

[deutsey]

7. Don't you be tarot-fied

It's just a token of his extreme.